Blood Magic (The Blood Journals #1) by Tessa Gratton | Paperback, 405 pages Doubleday Children’s (July 2011) Paranormal YA Guest Reviewer: Vicki Wow, wow, and wow I LOVED this book. I’d had it sitting on my to read pile a while and although I was looking forward to it, I wasn’t desperately excited about it. So when I turned to the first page I wasn’t expecting to be anywhere near as gripped as I was. Combining two of my favourite styles – duel narrative and flashback diary entries, along with a…
Title: Long Lankin Author: Lindsey Barraclough Publisher: The Bodley Head (RHCB) Publication Date: April 2011 ARC: 455 pages Genre: Horror, Ghost Young Adult Source: Review Copy Reviewed by: Carolyn RATING: 7/10 – very good, definitely leaning towards an 8/10 BOOK COVER SUMMARY: When Cora and her little sister Mimi are sent to stay with their elderly aunt in the isolated village of Bryers Guerdon, they receive a less than warm welcome, and are desperate to go back to London. But Auntie Ida’s life was devastated the last time two…
Title: The Iron Witch (The Iron Witch Saga #1) Author: Karen Mahoney Publisher: Corgi Children’s/RHCB (UK) / Flux (US) Publication Date: Jan 2011 ARC: 290 pages Genre: Urban Fantasy Young Adult Source: Review Copy Reviewed by: Carolyn RATING: 7/10 – very good GOODREADS SUMMARY: Freak. That’s what her classmates call seventeen-year-old Donna Underwood. When she was seven, a horrific fey attack killed her father and drove her mother mad. Donna’s own nearly fatal injuries from the assault were fixed by magic—the iron tattoos branding her hands and arms. The child…
